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Flooding
Closes
Three North Iowa State Parks, Trout Moved from Manchester
Posted 26 July 2010
Heavy rainfall across
northern Iowa has caused the Iowa Department of Natural Resources to
close the South Lake campground at Backbone State Park, and move trout
from the Manchester hatchery, due to flooding conditions in the
Maquoketa River.
The DNR will not accept any reservations for the South Lake campground
until July 30. If the river recedes and flooding is no longer a
concern, the park could open earlier.
"We notified campers in the night that they should pull out and most
heeded the warning. We do not force people to leave and some did decide
to stay. They will now likely be there until the water level drops
enough to flow through the culvert under the park road," said Kevin
Szcodronski, chief of State Parks for the Iowa Department of Natural
Resources. "We are in the process of calling campers who have a
reserved site to let them know the campground is closed."
The Maquoketa River is within one foot of going over the retaining wall
at the Manchester Trout Hatchery and after losing 200,000 trout to
flood waters in 2008, hatchery manager Dave Marolf did not want history
to repeat itself.
"We loaded 77,000 rainbow trout this morning and shipped them north to
Big Spring and Decorah hatcheries. These fish were destined for those
facilities later in the month anyway so we just got them there a little
early," Marolf said. "We will now be capable of saving all remaining
fingerlings left here at Manchester if a flood becomes immanent."
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